Author: PDGateley

South gate of Agzadekoar, thanks to Rick. It’s perfect. I described the walls as being made from enormous chunks of stone ripped from the sides of the windy mountains. If you looks closely, you can see the runed SE & SW slave gates on the sides, and the guard barracks peeking out over the top of the wall over the SE slave gate. And there’s Big Shmoe’s tower in the background.

Here’s a modified list of the poisons in the DMG. I have a player who’s an assassin and I wanted to give him something to do with his poisoner’s kit. I changed the value of all of the poisons. Since I keep my player’s pretty busy (they don’t have much down-time, in-game) I vastly reduced the price of these poisons. I have him crafting 10 gold worth of value a day, so the idea is that he’ll be able to craft some basic things in less than a week.

Burnt Other (100)

Target rolls a DC 13 CON save. On fail 3D6 poison DMG. Target rolls again each round, until it has failed 3 times.

Carrion Crawler Mucus (140)

Target rolls a DC 13 CON save. On fail, target is paralyzed for up to 1 minute. Target may roll again each round, and the effect ends on a successful save.

Etheric Essence (90)

Target rolls a DC 15 CON save. On fail, target is poisoned & unconscious for up to 8 hours. Effect ends early if target takes damage or is shaken awake by a player or NPC.

Oil of Taggit (140)

Target rolls a DC 15 CON save. On fail, target is poisoned & unconscious for up to 24 hours. Effect ends early if target takes damage or is shaken awake by a player or NPC.

Malicious Extract (140)

Target rolls a DC 15 CON save. On fail, is blinded and poisoned for 1 hour.

Midnight Tears (300)

A creature that ingests this substance suffers no ill effects for exactly 24 hours. Once the time is up, target rolls a DC 17 CON save. Target takes 10D6 damage on a failed roll, or half as much on a successful roll.

Toadstool Filter (50)

Target rolls a DC 10 CON save. Target takes 1d6 poison damage on a failed roll, or no damage for a successful roll.

Liquid Torpor (90)

Target rolls a DC 13 CON save. Target takes 3d6 poison damage on a failed roll, or half as much for a successful roll.

Wyvern poison (120)

Target rolls a DC 14 CON save. Target takes 5d6 poison damage on a failed roll, or half as much for a successful roll.

Serpent Venom (180)

Target rolls a DC 15 CON save. Target takes 7d6 poison damage on a failed roll, or half as much for a successful roll.

Purple Worm Poison (220)

Target rolls a DC 18 CON save. Target takes 9d6 poison damage on a failed roll, or half as much for a successful roll.

Truth Serum (120)

Target rolls a DC 12 CON save. On fail, target becomes poisoned and cannot knowingly tell a lie (as if under the effects of a zone of truth spell.) Effects last for 1 hour.

Common is called common for a reason… it’s a language that most civilized (and some uncivilized) folk have in common.

Maragish

The first language of Felmoor. Spoken by men after the fracture. Still the primary language in certain parts of Frenyot. Common traces its roots to Maragish..

Ullish

The language of spirits. Ullish is a magical language that can only convey truth, although many spirits are able to use it to mislead the unwise listener.

Ullish is automatically understood by any sentient being, but can only be spoken by beings possessed of both immense wisdom and great clarity of purpose.

Can’t be learned in any of the normal ways

Gresh

It is impossible to speak Gresh without their unique physiology; it’s communicated mostly through roars, growls, clicks and sustained bass tones. They are capable of speaking at the equivalent of a conversational volume for other races, but among their own kind, the Gresh enjoy discoursing with startling loudness.

Non-gresh PCs may learn to understand Gresh, but not speak it.

Quyggin

Mooros taught the Quyg their complex, rapid-fire language. Most Quyg still grow up in communities where Quyggin is the primary language, although common is usually learned at an early age as well.

Stellarine

The large majority of Ramaki in Felmoor speak stellarine as their primary language. As a consequence of the secretive and protective nature of Ramaki culture, it’s rare for non-ramaki to have had much exposure to stellarine.

Adamant

The first language of the dwarves. It was taught to them by Ymyry, who also taught it to many sentient and semi-sentient creatures that lurk and burrow deep below the surface.

Pelcharan

The language of the secretive Pelcharans. Even more than the Ramaki, Pelcharans are very secretive and rare.

Justify in backstory

Voggish

The language of the giants.

Justify in backstory

Starbish Argot

A pidgin mix of Maragish, Common, Quyggin and even a bit of Adamant thrown in for good measure. Most closely associated with the dockyards of Starbish where it originated. It has since spread and is not spoken in a variety of communities in and around Frenyot.

Spy Cant

Secret code language used by members of Saragnor’s Special forces. Conveyed using very subtle motions of the hands, face and shifts in posture. Skilled practitioners can have a verbal conversation with someone, while simultaneously having an entirely different conversation with the same person through spy cant. Unless bystanders are highly observant, they would see nothing out of the ordinary at all.

Non-verbal.

Thieves cant

Thieves cant and spy cant serve similar functions, but the former is less refined, and practiced more widely. It is essentially a democratized form non-verbal communication. For obvious reasons, rogues, assassins and conspirators of all sorts are it’s most common practitioners.

Non-verbal.

Radiant

The language of most Celestials. Celestials Often communicate through patterns of energy fluctuation. Ramaki can learn to “see” these fluctuations and even respond in rudimentary ways.

Mooros is one of the Oyarsa. Player clerics can choose him to gain access to the Light domain.

Mooros is a big part of Felmoor, and this quick introduction doesn’t really do him justice, BUT we’re starting the campaign on SAT and I’m kindof rushing to get as much down on paper as possible.

Mooros the One-eyed, the Giant King, Lord of Earth

Relationship with FollowersMooros is an active and visible force in the world. It is an unusual individual who has not heard one or two of the many stories told about him. His largely benevolent interactions with the planestrange. Those who come face to face with the Lord of Earth encounter both his humor, and his austerity: two enduring qualities which his personality unites in a way that only an immortal nature could.

Teachings & PhilosophyMooros the one-eyed is associated with wisdom. It is said that He can always see through Svjart’s disguises. Mooros teaches strength, responsibility and honor, but above all else, truth. His followers are expected to meditate in order to uncover the deepest thoughts and motivations of their own heart. He will not tolerate selfishness or evil intent among his followers.

NotesIn power and in wisdom, Mooros is the greatest of the Oyarsa. In Felmoor, his influence and voice ring loudest through the bones of the earth. Following the fracture, Mooros stood between the world and complete destruction. In those early centuries, he did his work well; shoring up the broken, jagged pieces of the world, mending the walls of reality and putting distance between Felmoor and the encroaching void. Now, Sohmna has taken over much of his work, and Mooros is engaged in other tasks. He wars with the fiend-queen Tishma in the lowest bowels of Felmoor where the earth is thin and the void seeps through the fissures in the floor of the world.

He is depicted as a giant with broad shoulders and enormous hands, wreathed in white fire.

Sohmna is one of the Oyarsa. Cleric players can choose her to gain access to the Tempest domain

Sohmna, Sailor Beyond the Horizon.

Relationship with FollowersShe is beloved by shipwrights, explorers and widows. While there was a time when Sohmna lived in human communities, few now living have met her in the flesh. Most of those who follow her have encountered her in dreams. She is a comforter to those who mourn for something lost, a guide to sailors, and a muse to would-be explorers who long for distant places and strange sights.

Teachings & PhilosophySohmna has no teachings. She is a mostly silent patron, and her disciples have only her complicated, sometimes contradictory example to follow. Some choose to focus on her strength, becoming clerics driven by duty and responsibility towards the world and it’s inhabitants. Some focus on her independence and ingenuity, becoming adventurers, or explorers.

NotesSohmna is the most complex personality among the allies of Mooros. Once the most approachable of the Maiar, she is now the most distant, although she has not lost her compassionate spirit. She is thought to play a very active part in the preservation of the universe; a role she requested of Mooros following the death of her mortal husband. Her undertaking keeps her on the periphery of the world, mending and repairing the cracked and broken edges of reality. The great Halls of Sohmna, long neglected and empty, lie somewhere beyond the edges of the explored world; legend says they stands at the place where the endless river empties into the void. She is depicted as a grey-hooded figure standing astride the deck of a white-sailed vessel on stormy seas, white-eyed, raven-haired, and haloed in lightning. In one hand she carries a silver spear and in the other a builder’s hammer.

Svjart is one of the Oyarsa. Clerics players can choose him to gain access to the trickery domain.

Svjart, Father of Merry Rogues

Relationship with followersSvjart is perhaps the most erratic and inscrutable member of the oyarsa. In the past, his followers have been individuals who befriended him before they knew his true identity. He asks very little from his followers. More than all else, he abhors slavery and he expects his followers – known to many as “the unholy men of Svjart” – to abhor slavery as well. A sense of humor and an ability to laugh at oneself is also a requirement. Many “unholy men” have had their power taken away as a penalty for “taking things too seriously.”

Teachings & Philosophy
Most oyarsa avoid formal teaching, preferring instead to lead by example. Svjart differs in that he does not seem interested in leading at all. Followers of Svjart come from many backgrounds and beliefs.

NotesSvjart is associated with change, planning, and artifice. His true form is unknown, for he is able to take any form he chooses. It is often speculated that he has no true form. It may be that Svjart’s nature is essentially mercurial; one form is no “truer” than another, and his truest shape is the one he wears in the moment. Most often he appears as a winking rogue, clenching a carved floatstone pipe between his teeth, smoking like the 5 hells. Like Eldrethine, Svjart spends his time in Felmoor, having laughs at the expense of mortals. Jokes, pranks and swindles are his domain, although he has an enthusiastic collaborator in Mooros.

Pejora is one of the oyarsa. Cleric players can choose her to gain access to the knowledge domain.

Pejora, Attendant of Unexamined Knowledge

Relationship with followers
The large majority of Pejora’s followers – record keepers, accountants, historians, scholars and writers – have met her in person exactly once, during the interview they underwent for the position of “librarian.” Librarians of Pejora are expected to devote themselves to the preservation of all knowledge. They must also memorize as many books as they can over the course of their life.

Teachings & philosophy
Pejora teachers that all information is knowledge, all knowledge is valuable, deserving of preservation, and forceful means are justified to that end.

Notes
She sits on the chair of records and is known to rarely leave her vast and ever expanding library, located in a sub-dimension only accessible by her librarians. She is largely disinterested in life and it’s challenges. Instead, She hoards written information of almost any kind; her dimly candle-lit halls are stuffed from floor to high vaulted ceiling with books, scrolls, maps, magical devices, folios and stacks of aging parchment that have become stuck together with drips of candlewax. Immortal Pejora, while ever youthful, is stooped, near-sighted, plainly dressed, and reclusive. and reads endlessly with the aid of quicksilver-framed spectacles.